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What Can We Expect from Paid Carers?

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  • Gabrielle Meagher

    (School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA; Tel: +61 2 9351 6610; Fax: +61 2 9351 8596; G.Meagher@econ.usyd.edu.au)

Abstract

People in rich countries increasingly rely on paid workers to care for many of their health and personal care needs. We expect that, in most families, love or filial piety underpin caring relationships, and that these moral bonds ensure good quality care. If paid caring relationships are not underpinned by love, what moral bonds can they rely on? Exploring contract, professional duty, and compassionate gift as normative “resources†for good paid care, I conclude that we cannot expect paid carers to reproduce an idealized private sphere. Instead we can expect “good enough†care, supported by a range of normative resources.

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  • Gabrielle Meagher, 2006. "What Can We Expect from Paid Carers?," Politics & Society, , vol. 34(1), pages 33-54, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:34:y:2006:i:1:p:33-54
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329205284755
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    1. Shahra RAZAVI & Silke STAAB, 2010. "Underpaid and overworked: A cross-national perspective on care workers," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 149(4), pages 407-422, December.

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